How to Build an Accessible Website for Your Organization

Posted by on October 31, 2011

Webinar Announcement-
Inclusion Goes Digital: How to Build an Accessible Website for Your Organization
Hosted by the National Service Inclusion Project (NSIP)

Date: Thursday, November 10, 2011
Time: 4:00pm – 5:00pm EST (3:00 PM Central, 2:00 PM Mountain, 1:00 PM Pacific)

The need for creating an online presence may be well accepted (or has become a necessity) in the digital age; national service programs can and have used online resources to engage in recruitment, to seek funding, and to share best practices and achievements. If you are a program that wants to use the web for any of these purposes, how do you get started? Once you have a digital space available, how do you ensure the content you are displaying is accessible? Building an accessible website can seem like a complex task.

This month’s web conference will discuss these questions by sharing and demonstrating available, low/no cost web resources to bring your program online with inclusion in mind. This presentation will be a more advanced discussion of website building and will move at a brisk pace to keep within an hour. Everyone is encouraged to participate, but it is also recommended that participants have existing webpage content knowledge. We will also record this presentation- following the webinar everyone will have the opportunity to review the content as needed.

Specifically, you will learn about:
-Using WordPress as a publishing platform.
-Choosing accessible themes and templates (how your site looks/feels).
-Integrating social media tools (Twitter, Facebook).
-Publishing using more than text (pictures, video, graphs/charts).
-Collecting data.

The speaker for this presentation will be Jeff Coburn, Web Services Manager, for the Institute of Community Inclusion at UMass Boston.

To register for this event, please email nsipga@umb.edu by 12:00 PM EST on Wednesday, November 9th with the following info:

-Name
-Organization
-Email
-Phone
-If you require CART* to participate, please also indicate that in your email.

Please note: We will send out confirmation emails by Wednesday afternoon, November 9th with instructions on how to sign into the web conference.

*CART service provides instantaneous translation of the speech text using real-time software. Teleconference participants receive caption services over the web. This is an accommodation we provide to participants who are Deaf or hard of hearing.

The National Service Inclusion Project (NSIP) is training and technical assistance provider on disability inclusion, under a cooperative agreement (#08TAHMA001) from Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS). NSIP partners with the Association on University Centers on Disability, National Council on Independent Living, Association on Higher Education and Disability and National Down Syndrome Congress to build connections among disability organizations and all CNCS grantees, to increase the participation of people with disabilities in national service.